Basketball, Eurocup: Virtus knocked out in the Canaries

GRAN CANARIA-VIRTUS 100-80
Large defeat for Virtus in the Canaries: it ends at -20 against the local Spanish team that leaps to the top of the group together with Buducnost. With the third knockout in the cup, the Bolognese team is now third and must look back. Widely decimated, without even Sampson left at home to treat his injured left ankle in the derby, Virtus starts strong (10-2) following the rhythms of Teodosic then is immediately reabsorbed by the first triples of Gran Canaria, signed by Kramer and Shurna, who in the long run they will make a difference. Bologna does and undoes, has no internal danger even if the hosts have no phenomena under the basket. It is the US cast of the Spanish team to dictate rhythms and score baskets while on the other side Belinelli starts making a lot of mistakes in shooting. At the break +2 for Gran Canaria, but as soon as the recovery begins, Bologna puts its head forward. Finally Beli arrives with two triples to sculpt the last virtussino advantage (62-63). Gran Canaria then lights up its external Slaughter and especially Ennis who reciprocate with very heavy three-piece baskets. At the third siren it is +6 but you can still play. Instead, Teodosic’s unsportsmanlike and a technical foul on Belinelli arrived. The last quarter is a “canary” monologue (partial of 29-15), for Virtus it is a hard defeat, the largest in the score of this first part of the season. But the alibis are there even if it is good to abuse them.
Gran Canaria: Ennis 17, Slaughter 16, Shurna 14, Kramer 14
Virtus Bologna: Weems 17, Belinelli 16, Teodosic 15

TRENTO-HAMBURG 90-99
Trento never wins in Europe. Not even against Hamburg, a team of the same group that passes on the field of the Dolomites with the numbers of its outsiders Homesley and Brown, a couple of 47 points in total, deadly in the last quarter when they crash the Juventus defense. Balanced game with exchanges of advantages and overtaking. Trento, however, is very much in the wake of the German team, then at the start of the last quarter he seems to take the game in hand with the baskets of an excellent Flaccadori and the usual determination of Captain Forray. But at 72-66 Trento gets the ball stolen twice on the goal kick, so Hamburg regains confidence while Homesley continues his show of three-pointers and attacks on the iron. The blaze of the best in the field ends up burning the Dolomites, increasingly last in its group.
Trento: Flaccadori 19, Reynolds 16, Williams 13
Hamburg: Homesley 27, Brown 2nd, Kotsar 15